Laura Ingraham Grossly Misrepresents Planned Parenthood's Budget

Laura Ingraham claimed on Fox News that "Planned Parenthood makes most of its money from the abortion procedure" and "without the abortion services, Planned Parenthood is basically out of business." In fact, abortion services make up less than 15 percent of Planned Parenthood's annual revenue.

Ingraham: "Planned Parenthood Makes Most Of Its Money From The Abortion Procedure." From the February 17 edition of The O'Reilly Factor:

INGRAHAM: Here's what we know, Bill. We know that Planned Parenthood gets about a third of its budget from the U.S. taxpayers, number one. Number two, we know that Planned Parenthood makes most of its money from the abortion procedure. About 324,000 abortions a year.

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INGRAHAM: They oppose it, Bill, because, I mean, to be brutally honest here Planned Parenthood is overwhelmingly in the business to do one thing, to perform abortions. .09 percent of the clients who walk into a Planned Parenthood clinic get prenatal services. And in the last year that was tallied, only about 2400 or so cases were referred to adoptions. OK, so you do the math. 324,000 abortions, cost on average about $500 a piece. And then the 2400 referred to adoption. It doesn't take a math whiz to understand that without the abortion services, Planned Parenthood is basically out of business. [Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor, 2/17/11]

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